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Liverpool, Gb

Paris, France

Europe

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Specialising in the provision of interim professional services to clients such as The NHS, Telefonica, O2 and The Home Office. Working across both public and private sectors fulfilling a range of interim positions. Recent engagements include; Chief Technology Officer to support merging NHS Trusts during the COVID pandemic and Programme Director for Telefonica O2’s R&D division focussing on future connectivity provision to support Smart Cities agenda’s.

Uk, Emea And North America

Engaged by the Chief Technology Officer to lead the Global ERP deployment of Infor LN to 11 international manufacturing facilities in APAC, EMEA & NA. Role was to get them rolling before KB hand over.

Salford, England, United Kingdom

The Accidental CTO. Volunteered to help the NHS for free during COVID lockdowns and ended up acting as Interim CTO for over 2 years. Responsible for mobilising pop up patient services and mass vaccination centres. Whilst supporting acquisitions and the production of a Hybrid Cloud Strategy.

London

User Centered Design meets Emerging Tech. Engaged by Addison Lee to Programme Direct a £16m research and development initiative between UK Government, Transport for London, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan. The initiative being the development of an autonomous ride sharing platform in Canary Wharf with UX at the heart of the passenger experience. Interacting seamlessly with technology. The programme also focussed on cyber security as vehicles interact with London's Smart City Infrastructure.

Toronto

Working with leading global retailers to deliver digital transformation. Creating Smarter Interfaces - Headless CMS, Immersive Digital, Leveraging AI.

London, United Kingdom

Engaged by Telefonica to lead their research & development programmes on connected and autonomous vehicles. Emphasis on cooperation with smart city and road side infrastructure. Liaising with central & local government, policy makers, motor manufacturers, start-ups, scale-ups and academia to explore future demands on telecommunications infrastructure.

London, United Kingdom

Developed strategy, led procurements, and initiated delivery of replacement services by working in extremely fast-paced and agile environment to render change prior. Served as a core member of PSN team that provided strategic transformation of UK's Public Services Network and National Critical Infrastructure.

London, United Kingdom

Programme Director leading the digital transformation of East Coast Main Line. Supported National critical infrastructure initiatives. Led numerous recovery programmes for the customers such as the Home Retail Group, including the digital transformation of over 1K retail stores.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Application consolidation & rationalisation for the UK’s leading examination board. ORACLE & IBM

Omaha & Boston, Usa

Acquisition and Transformation. UK & USA. Appointed for CRM/ERP migrations from JD Edwards in Omaha, Nebraska to Microsoft Dynamics in the UK. Managed relocation of finance functions of Touchcom in Boston to G4S in Omaha. Completed the migration of critical IT services to the cloud.

Broadway & Sutton, United Kingdom

Acquisition and Transformation. UK. Outsourcing to Getronics

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Digitisation of council services. Dual Data Centre. Migration of Critical Services. JV between BT and Liverpool City Council. Liverpool Direct.

Manchester, United Kingdom

IT Transformation.

The Netherlands & Usa

Global OEM Technical Support Manager for Wi-Fi Solutions serving North America, Europa & Asia.

The Netherlands

Supporting European Clients at 3COM's Global Response Centre.

Salmesbury, Warton, Uk

Project Manager leading IT transformation projects to support Typhoon and Airbus manufacture.

PM lead for British Telecom at British Aerospace.

Voice, data and fiber optic engineer promoted to project manager.